latin2(7) -- Linux man page

NAME

iso_8859-2 - the ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV). ISO 8859-2, the "Latin
Alphabet No. 2" is used to encode Central and Eastern European Latin
characters and is implemented by several program vendors.
ISO 8859-2 supports the following languages: Albanian, Bosnian,
Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Irish, Polish,
Slovak, Slovenian and Sorbian.
Also note that the following Cyrillic-based languages have one-to-one
transliterations to Latin 2: Macedonian and Serbian.

ISO 8859 Alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO 8859-1

West European languages (Latin-1)

ISO 8859-2

Central and East European languages (Latin-2)

ISO 8859-3

Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)

ISO 8859-4

Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)

ISO 8859-5

Latin/Cyrillic

ISO 8859-6

Latin/Arabic

ISO 8859-7

Latin/Greek

ISO 8859-8

Latin/Hebrew

ISO 8859-9

Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)

ISO 8859-10

Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)

ISO 8859-11

Latin/Thai

ISO 8859-13

Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)

ISO 8859-14

Celtic (Latin-8)

ISO 8859-15

West European languages (Latin-9)

ISO 8859-16

Romanian (Latin-10)

ISO 8859-2 Characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2),
which are printable and unlisted in the
ascii(7)
manual page. The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
in an environment configured for ISO 8859-2.